History NightmareFuel / StarTrekFirstContact

** To get a better idea, the Borg that originally appeared in TNG were a bunch of chalky pale-skinned, stoic-faced figures with wires around them.''Here'', the Borg wear a perpetual frown, and have visible rotting flesh, making them resemble ''zombies''.

** To get a better idea, the Borg that originally appeared in TNG were a bunch of chalky pale-skinned, stoic-faced figures with wires around them. UncannyValley at worst, right? ''Here'', the Borg wear a perpetual frown, and have visible rotting flesh, making them resemble ''zombies''.

--> '''Starfleet Radio Chatter:''' Warp core breach! Abandon ship! Abandon ship!...Hull breach!...Casualty reports coming in! 96 dead, 22 wounded on the ''Lexington''!

--> '''"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."''

* The fact that Starfleet initially leave Picard, their most experienced captain against the Borg, and ''Enterprise'', his brand-new ''Sovereign''-class battleship (whose design envisioned exactly this sort of battle), out in the back of beyond, because they don't think Picard will be able to keep his cool precisely because of his prior experience with the Borg. Which is ''exactly why they need him in the battle'' -- as we see when he and ''Enterprise'' arrive there, and thanks to Picard's unique insight and his ship's new weapon systems, promptly ruin a Borg cube which had shrugged off everything thrown at it previously, and which was mere moments away from assimilation range of Earth. In other words, Earth was almost devastated because the Federation's high military command made a mistake - or were even borderline incompetent - and even ''that'' is almost preferable to what we see in the next film, ''[[Film/StarTrekInsurrection Insurrection]]'', which revolves around the corruption that apparently ''also'' riddles Starfleet's admiralty. You want scary? Borg and creepy crawlies are pretty bad, sure. But a government whose leaders are too stupid to know the right course of action when they see it, and too corrupt to carry through with it even if they did? ''[[AdultFear That's scary.]]''

* Data, once the Borg Queen grafts living flesh onto his face. The contrast between his normal appearance and the stolen, healthy looking skin and hair, and that innocent blue eye, is incredibly creepy. To say nothing of ''where'' she got the grafts from...

** The battle itself is brief, but that's the chilling part. This is a post-Wolf 359, more militarized Starfleet. Despite having advance warning of their arrival, despite having new weapons and ships designed solely to combat the Borg (like the Defiant), a Cube is still able to break through the fleet's defensive perimeter ''in four seconds''.

* The entire opening. We see Picard flashing back his time on the Borg Ship and assimilation (EyeScream included). It's frighteningly disturbing seeing him plugged in to one of those rechargers with this completely emotionless expression on his face, and at this point he's still in uniform and hasn't even had any implants put in yet. And then these flashbacks finish and we cut to present day Picard looking upset after recalling all these traumatic events. Then he goes up and looks at himself in a mirror, and [[JumpScare BOOM!]] - a Borg drill [[FacialHorror pops out of his face]]. Yes it turns out ItWasAllADream. It doesn't make things any less freaky to watch.

** The fleet assembled to defend Earth initially comes off as cool, calm, and professional in the face of the slowly advancing Borg cube. Then. . .they hear ''this'':

** The battle itself is brief, but that's the chilling part. This is a post-Wolf 359, more militarized Starfleet. Despite having advance warning of their arrival, despite having new weapons and ships designed solely to combat the Borg (like the Defiant), a Cube is still able to break through the fleet's defensive perimeter ''in four seconds''.

** The battle itself is brief, but that's the chilling part. This is a post-Wolf 359, more militarized Starfleet. Despite having advance warning of their arrival, despite having new weapons and ships designed solely to combat the Borg (like the Defiant), a Cube is still able to break through the fleet's defensive perimeter ''in four seconds''.

* The initial transmission the ''Enterprise'' receives from the battle. They hear admirals and captains calmly giving orders before the Borg break in with their "ResistanceIsFutile" spiel -- and what follows is a bunch of explosions and shouting as the armada collapses into panicked chaos. The look on Picard's face shows how little he can stand to listen, which makes it a relief when he decides to buck orders and warp to Earth so that the ''Enterprise'' can save the day.

* Data, once the Borg Queen grafts flesh onto his face. The contrast between his normal appearance and the stolen skin and hair, and that innocent blue eye, is incredibly creepy. To say nothing of ''where'' she got such alive looking skin from...

** The Enterprise picked up the survivors of the Defiant and continued the movie with them on board. How many of them survived the movie? How many of them got through that space battle only to be assimilated in the next couple hours? That had to be a hell of a return trip to DS9. "Captain Sisko, we're back. Half the crew were killed in the battle and half the survivors became Borg anyway."